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Waterstones Book of the Year is ...

... POLPO: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts) by Russell Norman, and it has beaten a very strong field to take the prize.

We have been enjoying cooking from the book - not just pizza - and we used it for its recommendations of bàcari, backstreet bars which serve authentic Venetian food, on our recent visit to Venice.

May I also commend the book's 'spineless' design which allows it to open flat and stay that way when in use in the kitchen!

Here is a short video to give you a taste of the book and a look at its Venetian roots.

30 November 2012 in Books, Cooking | Permalink

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A well deserved accolade. Love this book, which I discovered through your blog (and which I nearly sent back because it had no spine!)

Posted by: Freda | 30 November 2012 at 12:39 AM

Will it start a fashion for spineless books, I wonder ...

Posted by: Cornflower | 30 November 2012 at 08:48 AM

Having already bought Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries II plus Nigelissima to add to my cookery shelf, I need another cookbook like a hole in the head but I might just have to add Polpo to my Christmas list!
Maybe a spineless cookbook will actually stay on the cast iron book stand I was bought but which lives in the cupboard because I don't like bending books back enough for them to stay on the dratted thing!

Posted by: Liz F | 30 November 2012 at 09:46 AM

Thanks Cornflower - I see a Christmas solution arriving.

Posted by: Sandy | 01 December 2012 at 02:59 PM

Sounds yummy

Posted by: Mystica Varathapalan | 09 December 2012 at 02:29 PM

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